Split second lunches, color-keyed disposable dishes, all part of the instant society of tomorrow. A society rich in leisure and taken-for-granted comforts.

In 1967 the Philco-Ford Corporation released a short film titled 1999 A.D. In it the inevitable advances of the future are demonstrated. This clip of the kitchen of the future showcases a world of automation, maximized health, and a push-button culture; themes we see throughout the film.

It's funny, most everything in the video we're ABLE to do with current technology, but don't bother with. Who wants to use a webcam to communicate with your kid who's in the other room? Shouting across the house will never be obsolete!

That's an ENORMOUS microwave oven for one TV dinner... and the conveyor belt was just over the top! Many of us guys would have our meals heated by body temperature, as the wife we are yelling at inserts it into our bottoms. This is pure sixties, right down to the clothes and hairstyles.

I can't get over the computer with its flat monitor(s). Hell, a casual-use computer with *any* kind of video monitor would be a pretty progressive thought for '67. Damn--that thing looks just like the LCD in front of me...

Loose the crappy attitude of the husband and kid and is it really a bad idea? A program that could suggest foods and an inventory for your food stash full of healthy things could be an improvement for society over just randomly picking crap to eat that is not balanced. Believe it or not some women including myself still cook for their families. I don't know about all the microwaving in the short. Yuck.

The thing that was as wide as two refrigerators was not the microwave, it was the computer. Remember, computers were huge back then, and they didn't know at the time that Moore's law would be kicking in.

I disagree that the wide thing was the computer, possibly, but I would guess that was the frozen food storage side of the system. Frozen storage on the left, microwave in the middle, dispense on the right. In 1967 (during Apollo) getting basics like that right would be a point of pride.

We're actually close to this now, but without automated delivery. Its not cost-effective, and most importantly, eliminates visibility of the branding of the food in there. You can't see colorful labels and such, though at this time they didn't anticipate the computer could show icons to brand the foods either...

"CheeseBURGER!With French Fries, and a Niiice coldbottle of beer..."Being that this was made in '67, methinks he means Miller High Life or Schlitz or something like that...In the REAL 1999, he might have ordered a Sam Jacks...er, Sam Adams, or something imported.In reality, microwave food isn't all *that* bad, if you get decent brands.....

Someone should do this over, as a cartoon/animated parody of The Sopranos in '99 (when A.J. was a little, rolly-poly kid)...Have Tony a little grouchier, and when they sit at the table, A.J. says his famous old like from back in the day, "So, what, no #$%$^kin' ZITI now?"...Then Tony sips some of the no-cal beer, and they sample a line from a recent ep where he tasted Christopher's no-alcohol beer and says, "Less filling - tastes like @$$!"....

Mom was really hot.It was a time when women could be hot without containing silicone for those uugly "knee bangers".The part which let on that it was fake was that the brat didn't whine and smart mouth Mom.

Yes, the lovely brunette is indeed Marj Dusay; TV, movie actress, stealer of "Spock's Brain", who's present TV role is Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light. What a gas seeing this! I just bought and sent her a copy of the DVD "Yesterday's Tomorrow Today," that her "1999A.D." is included on.

One thing they got half right...the use of the exercise equipment. On the one hand, they're correct in showing it unused and primarily serving as an obstacle course. On the other hand, where is the laundry that's normally hanging on it? Maybe the clothes are color-coded and disposable, too, like paper Garanimals?

A lot of people correctly identified Wink Martindale as the husband, but it's worth noting the wife is Marj Dusay, a well-known television actress who had another skirmish with a retro future when she played Kara in the infamous Star Trek episode, "Spock's Brain." In more recent years, soap opera fans knew her as Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light.